School: An Clochar, Dún ar Aill (roll number 4268)
- Location:
- Doneraile, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Na Mná Rialta
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0374, Page 300
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- There was a giant in Doneraile long ago and every step he took was about a mile long.My father's house, Park House, three miles east of Doneraile is supposed to be haunted and it is said that a coach passes in front of the house every night at 12 o'clock midnight and that big black dogs go around the house.Every night at 12 o'clock a barrel with a ghost sitting on it rolls down Larabuchan Hill.In Mr. Mac Carthy's Land near Larabuchan Bridge there is a stone and it is said that it jumps into the river once every 200 years and comes up againOn All Souls Night a woman and a girl, Mrs. O'Regan and her daughter, Elma, of Clogher, Shanballymore in the parish of Doneraile were going home. They heard a step following them and they ran and the step ran after them.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Cogan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Park South, Co. Cork
